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K 07958 (P397397)
CANONICAL > Divination > Physiognomy > Alamdimmû, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 07958 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397397 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Physiognomy > Alamdimmû |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| 21' | If... is located: there will be death; variant: hand of.... |
| 14' | If... is swollen: he will not become satisfied. : If he is swollen: he will die. |
| 12' | If... s dies : variant: he will eat bread. |
| 16' | If... does not eat bread, : GI6-mes : end of day : GI6-mes : he will not eat bread. |
| 10' | If...-a is covered in : he will be worried. : If he is covered in sweat: his days will be in the mountain. |
| 17' | If... a dog is located on the right side of the dog: his days will be long. |
| 2' | ...... |
| 4' | ...... that man will kill... |
| 5' | ......: that man will make the rites of the palace last long. |
| 18' | ... : he will die : bread will be many. |
| 9' | If he is ill with a young man: he will be ill. : If he is ill with a black man: his days will be long. |
| 8' | If his eyes are dark: he will eat food. : If the yellow-green is a qarrad creature. |
| 15' | If... there is a mole: variant: he will acquire white sphinxes. |
| 7' | ... as if it were long, that man will die. |
| 3' | ......... |
| 11' | If he is stricken: he will experience black reeds. : If he is large, there will be bread. |
| 6' | ...... is bright: the god will... to a man. |
| 13' | If he is white: he will die. : he will acquire wealth. |
| 19' | ... is present. The breast-bone is not present. |
| 1' | ..... |
| 20' | If... is located: there will be no house. |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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